A return to school for virginias Second Largest School District today. Our Northern Virginia bureau reporter, david culver, takes us inside Prince William countys newest school on the first day of class. Reporter back to school here at Prince William county means a Brand New School for about 1400 High Schoolers who are at the new just opened colgan high school. For some we met, it means Holding Tight to a map just to figure out your way around. First i have to go in and i have to go immediately up the stairs to get to everything, geometry class. Reporter this sophomore navigating her educational journey. Even with the map i was getting lost at orientation. Reporter she and every other classmate here getting used to this new building, which is massive. A little bit nervous because this is a huge school. Its like ikea and combined. Reporter the High School Opens its doors as the center for fine and performing arts. It features a stateoftheart 1600seat theater, a main gym touting the sharks. Speaking of swimming, check out this aquatic center, which will also open to the community. Right now nine of our 12 high schools will have their swim teams practicing here. Reporter the 100 million plus project struggled to break ground at first. In 2013 we reported about a controversy over relocating a family gravesite. This the Burial Ground eventually relocated and the high school went up. But added growth is a challenge. Space is a premium now and so trying to acquire land is a big, big challenge. Reporter for students and teachers here at colgan go through the door and to the t. So while theyre welcoming 1400 students today, eventually it will hold another 800 or 2200 students altogether. In the manassas section of Prince William county, im david culver, news4. Its also the first day of school in Loudoun County. More than 78,000 students are expected to be in the classroom today. Thats about 3,000 more than last year. Superintendent Erik Williams tells us the district will also welcome about 700 new teachers. Thats a lot of work. Weve worked hard on that. Weve hosted half a dozen interview or recruitment events and attended more than 25 recruitment events outside of the district. Dr. Williams says he has a hiring advantage over some other School Districts because Loudoun County has the highest starting salary for teachers in Northern Virginia. Students in Montgomery County also started school today. This m ward joined some of the kids on their first bus ride to school. Hell join us live the at lesson lesson 11 30. Did you take your annual first day of school photo . Send it our way, tag nbc washingt washington. Right now the brand new year of Prince Georges CountyHeadstart Program is under way and this comes just after the program lost millions in federal funding amid allegations of abuse and neglect. The county executive made his way to glass Manor Elementary School to welcome the students there. Were told he wanted to assure the community that te Headstart Program will continue with improved oversight. And good morning still. Im meteorologist chuck its a mostly sunny sky out there early for you this morning. Looking down towards national airport, planes are flying up the river today. If youre booking a flight to go out of town, sit on the righthand side if you want the view. Temperatures in the mid80s already. Certainly going to be another warm day. Our average high this time of the year only 85 degrees, so well be in plus territory by noon time. Afternoon highs up to generally 90 to 91 or 92 or 93 degrees. 91 or 92 or 93 downtown, near 90 in most of the suburbs. Temperatures fall back into the upper 70s by 11 00 tonight. Rain chances, not much of a chance today but rain chances increasing as we get towards the second half of the week. We detail all that in a few more minutes. Right now the red cross is working with people who cannot go back home to their apartments in the 2700 block of arlington drive after a twoalarm fire. Around 8 00 this morning firefighters got there. They found smoke as you see here coming from the top floor of the section of Fairfax County. One person right now being checked out and about 16 to 20 people have been displaced. Right now police are investigating a shooting near a busy d. C. Intersection. They say someone fired a gun on porter street in northwest near connecticut avenue this morning. They did find shell casings there. This is right by the Cleveland Park metro station. Nobody was hurt. We now know the name of the woman who was hit by a car on sunday. Police say that the 76yearold was crossing north shore drive when she was hit by a newer model black Nissan Altima or similar vehicle with tinted windows and silver trim on the front. The driver did not stop and fled the scene. Police are now asking for your help in tracking down the suspect. This is a picture of the type of vehicle they say the suspect was driving. If you have any information, you are being asked to call police. Moments ago we did find out about another deadly hitandrun crash in Fairfax County as well. It happened on the beltway near the exit for little river turnpike. Virginia state police say that a Nissan Maxima rearended a toyota camry, which slammed into a jersey wall. A woman inside that camry died. The driver of the nissan ran away. Police found him a few hours later walking along the road and took him in custody. Prince georges county police are asking for your help to find this little boy. Take a look at your screen. Alexis rivera has been missing for days. He is 12 years old and was last seen on 18th avenue in hyattsville last week. He is four feet tall and weighs about 60 pounds. He also wears glasses and has a scar on his left hand. D. C. s 911 system is back to normal after an outage early sunday morning. It was down for just about two hours. 911 dispatchers rushed to the backup cen there were still problems rerouting incoming calls, so the call center sent out tweets with 10digit phone numbers for fire and police. The outage is believed to be caused by equipment problems. All the power boxes failed at the same time, but city leaders say they just dont know why. A warning for metro riders this morning. Safetrack surge 8 is under way and it could cause some extreme crowding on trains on the yellow and blue lines in virginia. Blue line trains will single track between Franconia Springfield and van dorn streets. On the yellow line there is not any Additional Trains into downtown during peak periods. The work should all wrap up by september 11th. New today, mylan says it will start selling a generic version of the epipen. They said the list price will be 300 for a twopack, half the current price. Mylan has been criticized for the price more than 600 over the past ten years. The generic is supposed to be available in the next several weeks. Donald trump announces a major immigration speech. Up next, new questions about what hell say. Plus, caught on camera, the actions of a hero. A man is pulled off the tracks seconds before a train arrives. The story behind the video. And chaos at Los Angeles International airport. Seat sent pas just in the nick of time an officer pulls a man off the subway tracks. Tamron hall has more now on the heroic rescue. Reporter an act of heroism just in the nick of time. New Jersey Transit cop victor ortiz putting his life on the line, saving a man laying on the tracks, seconds before life and death. I was bracing for the worst but hoping for the best. Reporter bracing for an oncoming train, its headlights approaching fast. In my mind i said this is not going to happen. Im going to do what i can to pull this guy through. Reporter ortiz admitting it was a struggle. The man significantly larger than him wasnt cooperating, but ortiz found the strength to pull him off the tracks with no more than two seconds to if that last effort didnt work, we know what would have happened. Reporter this morning people are calling ortiz a hero but he hopes others would do the same. If i had just stood there and do nothing, i wouldnt be able to bear that thought in my mind. Reporter a humble cop, he said the man apologized and thanked him. He said i didnt mean to do what i did. I told him thats my job. My job is to protect and serve. Wow. Well, that was tamron hall reporting. The mans identity and condition have not been released. Right now officer ortiz is on a well deserved and preplanned vacation. Dozens of flights delayed in and out of l. A. X. This morning. The airport says its getting things back on track from that gun scare last night. Someone said they heard gunshots. So thousands of people you see here went running for safety and parts of the airport were evacuated. Police had to shut down several terminals, but they never found anything. Nbc nightly news anchor lester holt was experienced the chaos firsthand. We saw two police cars at a very high rate of speed zipping past airplanes on an active taxiway to the terminal. And then of course were met by people running down the stairs. Police say loud noises probably caused the scare, but they dont know what those noises were. It wasnt until after midnight our time that they gave the all clear. A long list of charges is expected after a deadly bus crash in louisiana. Police say an undocumented immigrant with no drivers license caused it. He apparently lost control of the charter bus yesterday morning and hit a fire truck. The fire chief and a person in another car were both killed. More than 40 people were hurt, including some firefighters. All three firemen were thrown over the side of the guardrail into the water below. Get this, people say on that help with flood relief. Today marks 11 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast. T category 3 storm overwhelmed the citys levee system and drainage canals back in 2005. 80 of the city flooded and more than 1800 people died and tens of thousands of people had to be rescued. 70 of the citys homes were damaged or destroyed. Turning now to decision 2016, donald trump is set to give what he is calling a major immigration speech later this week. It comes as his campaign is out with a new 10 million ad buy in key battleground states like virginia. And as Hillary Clinton prepares to debate him. Nbcs tracie potts has the latest. Reporter Hillary Clinton has got more fundraisers today and tomorrow. She raised over 11 million sunday amid debate prep. Advisers tell us shes studying policies, shortening her and preparing for the unpredictable. Well behaved, modest trump, i doubt well see that. Kind of offtherails trump. Reporter sources say donald trump is less formal, preferring to discuss issues over lunch instead of mock debates. He is not going to prepare the way hillary does. Hillary clintons corruption has been exposed again. Reporter trumps new web ad targets clintons emails and state Department Meetings with Clinton Foundation donors. When republicans meet with their donors with their supporters, they call it a meeting. When democrats do that, they call it a conflict. Reporter trump has announced his firstever event in a predominantly black community. At a church in detroit saturday. Wednesday in arizona hes giving a major immigration speech after confusion about whether hed deport undocumented immigrants or let them stay. No path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country. Reporter but trump says hell work with lawabg for years. Trump has been tweeting overnight saying hes expecting a big crowd and theyre already looking for a bigger venue. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Massive damage, that is whats left from last weeks huge earthquake in it issy. Italy. Now crews are also using demolition gear to destroy any buildings that are Still Standing but beyond repair, and its a lot of them. Three small towns were pretty much flattened when that quake hit. 290 people died and some survivors have been allowed back to their ruined homes to collect what they can. But then they have to leave again. An awful situation there. Adding mosquitos to a south florida community, how it could help fight the spread of zika. And we are heating up, but expect some changes before the end of the week. Chuck bell is back with when coin and oler temperatures i am banking assistance and registration technology. Hello its our new intern, barts first week here at td bank hes a robot from one of those other banks. Were training him to bank human. He has a lot of bad habits from his previous bank. Well make it our mission to change that. Hello account holder number 00027384873 well teach him that customers, arent account numbers. Bart, this is tod. And that even though they arent customers, dogs are always welcome. Take your time. Hell learn that, even the smallest of human touches, can go a long way. Hey bart, the pens are free. Oh. And that we have longest hours than other banks. Wait, wait, wait. Hi amy. Thank you. Thank you. That is not protocol manager jenna. Thats ok bart, it is here. Eventually hell learn that we do things a little differently here at td bank. Dont just bank. Bank human. Breaking news in the search for a missing woman. Just minutes ago Prince Georges County police said that mary butlers body was found in a rural part of pennsylvania. Pennsylvania state police found her. Butler disappeared earlier this month. She was 79 years old. Police said she could have been driving a silver toyota corolla. It is still not clear at this point how she died, but police dont suspect foul play. Mosquitos are whats spreading the zika virus, but they could also be the best tool to get it under control. The fda has approved a trial that would release genetically modified mosquitos into the environment. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has more. Reporter in the sleepy florida keys in the thick of Hurricane Season theres a political storm brewing, a fight over government, science and zika. I would absolutely feel like a guinea pig. Reporter they are looking into a plan to be the first u. S. Testing ground for genetically modified mosquitos, to stop the spread of diseases. The insects would be released in key haven. Critics have called it jurassic science. What is being objected to is the safety for both the environment and the people. Reporter mosquito eggs would be injected with a specific gene. When they hatch, the male mosquitos, which dont bite, are released. Their offspring die more quickly. Weve done trials in the cayman islands, in brazil, where in every single case weve shown over 90 control of the mosquito population within six to nine months. Reporter the debate has intensified amid mounting fears of zika. Federal Health Officials have issued travel warnings for pregnant women in parts of miamidade county. But with no cases of homegrown zika yet in the keys, opponents say the risks outweigh the benefits. These cannot be recalled. Once they are out there, they are out there. There is not enough information. Reporter they are mounting a campaign to vote down two referendums on the plan this november. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, miami. The threat of zika is also increased by possible Tropical Storms. South florida officials are warning people that added rain could create more mosquito breeding areas, so theyre sure there is no standing water that could attract insects. The same goes for us here too. Anything with standing water out. Zika or no zika, mosquitos are a bad thing. I got bit by one this morning. Already today . Theyre rough. Chuck, when it comes to the tropics, i know youre keeping an eye on it. This is a waitandsee situation at this point . You bet. We are waiting to see. So far what has been tropical depression number 9 which has drifted across the atlantic last week, its now off the coast of key west moving into the open waters of the gulf. Ill show you the track on that and let you know what impacts i think it may have on us. Lots of activity actually going on in the tropics right now. 84 here in washington. Northeasterly winds at 9 miles per hour. Its already 82 in frederick, maryland, 84 in manassas and 83 in apnnapolannapolis. Well be up into the cover between 3 00 and 4 00 this afternoon and rain chances are paltry at best. Slightly better than paltry chance across northern maryland. Heres our High Resolution model. You can see here one or two Little Popcorn showers up near the marylandpennsylvania border, out into the shenandoah valley. This is sparse indeed, not much of a chance for rain today. If you were to get a rain shower, it would only last 5 to 10 minutes and not drop a lot in the way of rain. Highs today in the low to mid90s. 93 today, 90 tomorrow, 93 wednesday. Thursday looks to be our best chance of rain as cooler air comes in. Ill give you the latest tropical track and see how the storm in the gulf will behave. Thank you, chuck. Right now a group of new york teenagers are enjoying their first full day as champions. They just won the Little League world series. There it is how exciting for them. Thats the team from endwell, new york, taking out south koreas team last night. Its the first time new york took the title in more than 50 years. They were undefeated this year. Last year many of those players came just one win away from the Little League world series. President obama tweeted his congratulations. They did it this time. Thats wonderful. Well deserved and you can tell just how excited they were. Okay, so weve been talking about it all day, the first day of school. It takes a whole lot of planning and coordinating. Think about how tough it could be to get thousands of students to school on hundreds of buses. So we went along for the right today and we show you what it was like for students and drivers. Well also have an update on two United Airlines pilots suspected of drinking before they were to fly from scotland to the u. S. Breaking news right now. An air force helicopter made an Emergency Landing at a middle school. This is not far from joint base andrews. It happened just after 10 00 this morning were told in brandywine. The helicopter landed after a transmission warning light came on. A pilot and copilot were the only people on board and nobody we do know the names of the two pilots accused of being too drunk to fly. They were arrested and taken off the job this weekend before they were scheduled for a crossatlantic flight. Nbcs tom costello has the latest in this investigation. Reporter appearing in a scottish courtroom this morning, two United Airlines pilots accused of showing up for their transatlantic flight to the u. S. Too intoxicated to fly. Veteran pilots 35yearold and 45yearold were taken into custody here at Glasgow Airport minutes before flight 162 was scheduled to leave for newark with 150 people onboard. One passenger tweeting whats going on . Please in the tunnel, very little information. Veteran pilot captain john cox. This is one of the areas where the pilots and all flight crew members have a virtual zero tolerance for impairment for any reason. Reporter in a statement United Airlines said the t service and their flying duties. We are cooperating with authorities and will conduct our own investigation as well. Among passengers at newark airport, disbelief. These people have a huge responsibility. They have so many lives that they have to be responsible for. Reporter flight 162 finally took off from glasgow saturday with a new crew, nearly ten hours late, landing in newark at 8 32 p. M. That was tom costello reporting. The faa prohibits any alcohol within 8 hours of piloting a flight and many airline its require more time sober. Tom says crew members and flight attendants regularly speak up if they believe a pilot or anyone else is impaired. The biggest School District in maryland is back in class. Montgomery county schools just opened up again this morning. Even though the district already has more than 150,000 students, it is still growing. Right now news4s derrick ward is live in germantown for us. Hey, derrick, hows it going . Reporter its going distinguish. Th good. This is the third year they have had growth in enrollment and here there are 300 new sixth graders who are getting used to changing classes and things like that. Today they had a little help from the superintendent. The buses began to roll before the sun came up. The drivers were treated to free breakfast from a local food chain and a send huoff from scl officials, the first day of school in Montgomery County. There are High Expectations from the top. And we also want to make sure for those students who are not learning as much as they need to and struggling, that we raise that level of learning for every single student. Reporter by dawns early light the first students that showed up. These kids were joined boy an unexpected rider. The superintdent was making his rounds, chatting up math . Good. My wife is a math teacher. She would be so happy if you said that to her. Reporter and he was chatting up parents as well. I used to ride the bus when i was a principal just to get to know the students. Reporter decorum on this bus was understandably calm. After all, the summperintendent was there. The more that you learn to read, the better the opportunities youll have in your life. Reporter about 20 minutes later, he waded into a sea of excitement. Students getting acquainted with thir new class schedules. Smfz some apprehension. Figure out how to get 900 plus kids to the right place can be a challenge. Reporter but the bell seemed to settle down some. One parent was dropping off her student that was not only new here but new to maryland as well. She left confident that her student was in good hands. They were like okay, were going to take care of it. I trust that reporter well, the buses are gone here but youve got to remember there are 1200 school buses in Montgomery Countys fleet so look out for them and look out for flashing lights because there are fines associated if you do not stop when the red signs are out with flashing lights. We are live in germantown, derrick ward, news4. Back to you. Thats a very good reminder. Thank you so much, derrick. We want to see your backtoschool photos. We know youve been using them. Use firstdayface when you tag nbc washington on twitter or instagram. Parents and teachers, you too. We want to see how you feel about the new school year as well. The department of transportation and faa are putting into place new drone rules today. Those rules will be laid out in a News Conference later this hour. Some of the regulations include a weight limit of 55 pounds and a time restriction, flying in daylight only. The Unmanned Aircraft must also visual line of sight. Nbcs joe fryer sat down with the mother of Natalee Holloway this morning. It is part of their where are they now true crime series. She talked about where the case is now and how shes dealt with extortion plots and taunts from the man suspected in her daughters disappearance. Youre never over feeling the loss of your loved one. Has every avenue been exhausted at this point . Do you still try to pursue new information . Pretty much we have done it all, every avenue has been explored. Joran van der sloot the man last seen with her is serving a prison sentence in peru for killing a business student on the fiveyear anniversary of holloways disappearance. He also faces charges in the u. S. After being accused of extorting money from the holloway family. Nba star dwyane wade says something has to be done about the vice hes mourning his cousin, a mother of four, who was shot and killed. Nbcs Kevin Tibbles shows us nykea aldridges emotional vigil and how the entire community is reacting to her death. Reporter a family heart broken. This is my baby girl. Reporter as the city of chicago is once again caught in the crosshairs of senseless violence. 32yearold nykea aldridge, a mother of four, shot and killed friday while pushing her 3weekold baby girl in a stroller on the citys south side. All of this killing has to stop. What is it doing to us . We might have a person shot over here. Reporter two brothers charged with her murder on sunday are being held without bail. Police say they were allegedly gunning for someone else, a man who was targeted simply because he came from a different neighborhood. These two offenders are the prime example of the challenge we face repeat gun offenders that dont care who they shoot, dont care whose life they take, and clearly, clearly dont feel the consequences of their actions. Reporter nykea aldridges first cousin, threetime nba champ and hometown hero, dwyane wade, used social media to speak out. My cousin was killed today in chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. Four kids lost their mom for no reason. Unreal. Enough is enough. In an awful twist, just a day before the shooting, the nba star addressed the plague of gun violence in chicago on espn. And this is something that didnt start today. This is something thats not going to end tomorrow. This is something that we can start a conversation, we can start the work today. This thing was personal. It hit him. Wades mother, jolinda wade, is a local pastor. I just keep hearing unity, we need to unite and bring all parties to reporting. The Chicago Tribune says there have been more than 460 homicides in chicago this year. The men arrested for nykeas death are both due in court today. San francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick says his protest of sitting through the National Anthem will continue. He sat out during the anthem in fridays preseason game. Kaepernick is protesting what he says are injustices in this country, especially when it comes to race relations. He says his protests will continue until he feels that things have been corrected. A mexican music icon has died. Juan gabriel was 66 years old. He was a leading singer and composer in mexico, loved those shiny outfits and would jump around on stage. His family says he died of a heart attack. His last performance was days ago. You know, mexicos president tweeting out how hes gone too soon. It seems like thats always the case with our best artists out there, gone too soon. And he was truly such a force. Rain is in our forecast. Lets talk about the weather. When our dry, hot weather pattern hopefully will come to the end, because we need the rain. Yep. And how these people who lived in a small dome for a year taught nasa so chopper 4 is over that breaking news we told you about just a few minutes ago. This is a live picture. An air force helicopter made an Emergency Landing at a middle school not far from joint base andrews. This happened just after 10 00 this morning in brandywine. Thankfully, nobody hurt. Six nasa crew members have pl living in hawaii. They were researching what it would be like for astronauts to live on mars. Of course, though, you can see they were not living on the beach. They spent the year inside a biodome on the side of a volcano. It was nasas Longest Mission ever to understand the effects of the deep space mission. You dont have to be chuck bell to be intrigued and excited about this. They were, i think, just 8500 feet above sea level. The only time they could go out is if they put their space suits on. I wonder if they snuck out on the beach. They were able to find some water. They said this proved that eventually they could have a Successful Mission to mars. I think honestly the biggest challenge will be the psychological challenge of having somebody in space that long. Its one thing to be on a volcano in hawaii. Its a whole other thing to be a couple million miles further out in space. Good luck to them, though. People laughed about the moon, but we made it outside here, weve got temperatures in the 80s. 80 now in potomac, 85 in centreville, 87 in Beverly Beach by the bay and 80 degrees down in mt. Vernon. Plan out the rest of your day. All sunshine for most of us here. Temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s between about 2 00 and 5 00 this afternoon and then cooling back down to 83 by 8 00 tonight. 77 by 11 00. The tropics have gotten quite active. This is hurricane gaston, no threat to the u. S. Eventually this storm will eventually move its way farther back out to the east in the open waters of the atlanta. Heres bermuda right here. This is tropical depression number 8 right here off the outer banks of north carolina. It is starting to show signs of strengthening here, likely to become a Tropical Storm within the next 24 hours or so. Well keep a very close eye on that because its so close to us, but the overall steering pattern takes that away from the u. S. As well. And this tropal down here in the southern parts of the gulf, also expected to reach Tropical Storm strength. Sometime late thursday or friday cross the florida peninsula and hopefully stay well off the outer banks of north carolina. So were keeping a close eye. The next two names on the list are hermine and ian. Well let you know should any of these storms form in the next couple of days. Otherwise, our tenday forecast here, plenty warm for the last three days of the month of august. Showers to start a new month and cooler weather for the first part of september, otherwise known as labor day weekend. Parents, getting your children ready for school in the morning is work. Its hard, its stressful. Advice on avoiding a morning meltdown. Were going to help you out. Plus amazon getting into the music business. Reports of a new livestreaming hrvice andow it will compete there is a website where you can report offensive content at xbox live, one drive, outlook and skype. It is similar to the one microsoft created to report terrorist posts but this one focuses on conthaent advocates violence or promotes hatred based on age, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. But since the site could be abused and microsoft could delete legitimate posts that arent hurtful, theres another site where you can send a request to reinstate content. Amazon i streaming service. This comes as pandora is closing in on licensing deals for its own ondemand streaming service which could debut later this year and they would both reportedly charge 9. 99 a month and join a crowded field that include its apple music, spotify and others. Im landon dowdy. As you know, parents, a lot of your kids are heading back to school, many of them today. We know that one of the Biggest Challenges for a lot of families is getting everyone out the door in the morning on time and without hopefully a meltdown. Joining us with stressrelieving ideas is the owner of kidville in bethesda. So good to see you. Thanks for having me. You are a great brain to pick about this. You say that preparation is key. Yes. So i think the more that you can do the night before, the less stressful the morning is. Starting with . With clothes. So, you kno this is for teenagers all the way down to the its guys. But picking out what youre going to wear and having a dialogue with them the night before. Even when youre folding your clothes, pairing outfits together. This is the outfit i thought we were going to wear this morning but didnt happen. You have backup . Exactly. So pairing them together makes things a little smoother the morning of. And you can put them in bags too for the different days . Some moms are creative and ziploc bags, put every outfit for the week. Wow, talk about organization. And this goes for eating too. Yes. So i think prepping the night before and giving limited options to your kids is always, i think, the way to go. So maybe having a day designated for cereal or oatmeal or pancakes or again talking about it and even having the box out, the bowl, everything ready so that in the morning thats one less thing youre worrying about with your kids. And what do we have over here . Because packing the lunch, this is the last thing you want to worry about in the morning. Yes. To expedite this process . So School Lunches can always be challenging, so i have a sample here of a good school lunch. Something out of the box and on my website, i have a lot of other school lunch ideas. But some of the tricks are to cut your fruit and or cut things ahead of time. Prep meals a couple of days ahead of time and have them in containers so its easy to pack the night before. I love like these little gogo squeezes. You can throw them in the fridge or freezer to keep your lunch instead of ice packs. And then you can pack snacks so youre not using ziploc bags. I love the idea of doubling it up as an ice pack. Wonderful. Okay. Keeping everything in the line of fire, meaning you can just grab and go. Yes. Its great in theory but having a place designated in your home where the kids will keep their backpack, that youll put the permission slips that you have to sign so that in the i theyre not like grabbing things from every single direction. This takes a little bit of training, i would say, but start the school year off right now on the right foot by designating that place. Real quick, i tell my kids go brush their teeth. And this is what they hear, run around in circles, stand, grab my toy. That was our exact dialogue this morning. How do we get them to do the things they need to do in the morning . Is it a matter of doing a calendar or checklist . Does that really work . It does work. This is a cool board that has i have a couple of examples on there. But you can do it on your own too. Create a white board and write down the different duties they should be doing. I think its sometimes fun to make it a game with a timer so maybe set the timer and give them x amount of minutes to do whatever they need to do. Oftentimes when you make it fun and theyre on the clock, it helps to speed things up. They like that sense of accomplishment too, right . One tip, i think you set the timer not them, because o the mix, its a whole other world. Youve got to take control. Yes. Turn around, youve got to appreciate this dress. Look how cute that is. Thanks for joining us. Helping us parents out, we need you. Theyre all so great and so talented i could never choose. I couldnt tell you even if there was a gun to my head. Ouch, the vmas on tv last night. They did not disappoint. Jimmy fallon as ryan lochte making fun of his robbery scandal in rio. Beyonce picked up eight awards, including long form video of the year for his visual album, lemonade. These are some photos from her instagram page. She performed 15 minutes worth of her album. She also walked the carpet with daughter blue ivy as well as the mothers of trayvon martin, Michael Brown and er who all appeared in her lemonade visual album. Bracelets and a mission of i wodont know where id be without itre so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. It made me so mad i wanted to give them the old onetwo one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift two, always check your medicare statements for errors these crooks think were clueless, they dont have a clue see more ways to fight fraud at medicare. Gov fraud pizza hut is hoping that you like to play with your food. They are getting rid of the normal brown pizza box and replacing it with a box that turns into a game board. It is called a flick football field box and will be available traditionally played with a piece of paper folded into a small triangle and then you flick it, we all did this when we were supposed to be studying between the field goal posts. Can you imagine . Its cool. It is. In a season of heated rhetoric and divisive issues, a young girl is doing Something Special to spread a little kindness. Now her Humble Movement has gone global. Nbcs Steve Patterson has the latest. Reporter if youre trying to keep up with her, good luck. Here are some bracelets for you buys to have. Reporter because when shes on a mission, you can. Whenever youre kind to someone, you give them the bracelet along with the note. Reporter 10yearold leah nelsons vision is simple. I want to live in a world where everyone is nice to each other and everyone can be the best person that they can be. Reporter in these stressful times, its striking a nerve. Earlier this summer when grownups on the news were showing how ugly they could be to each other, leah came up with something beautiful. Get people to pay it forward with kindness. I said, dad, im going to hand out some bracelets and people are going to have to be kind. I hear about 30 ideas a week from leah, and so it was one of those things, okay, ill see how far she takes this. Using an old birthday gift, a braceletmaking kit, she started making them by the dozen. Then hit the street, asking people to take one, do something good for someone else and then give them the bracelet and ask them to do the same. Thank you so much for everything you do. It all started at Community Events just like this, leah trying to make a difference in oar own backyard but 20 million views on facebook later and her message of kindness is touching people all over the world. Youve got 102 new messages. Requests for the bracelets are pouring in, but handing them out in person is still her favorite part. Dont eat just being herself. My dad just tells me to be me and thats what i try to do. So i think thats what im good at. Reporter wisdom from a 10yearold we might all use. It doesnt cost anything. Reporter Steve Patterson, nbc news, west sacramento, california. I love to see a little girl with such a big heart. Its just perfect too for a little monday motivation. Absolutely. Okay, lets check in with chuck. It was a hot start to our workweek. Sure was. Temperatures likely to be in the low 90s today as heat wave number four of the summer drags on here. August so far is 4 1 2 degrees warmer than average. Thats tied for the warmest august on record with august of 1980. Today, tomorrow and wednesday, the last three days of the month i think will bring us up into first place all by ourselves. We win thats it for news4 today. Thanks for joining us. Were back on the air this afternoon first at 4 00. And you can get all the news and weather updates any time you want with our nbc washington app. We hope that you have a back to school, goo jub. D im hall of famer jerry west and my life is basketball. But that doesnt stop my afib from leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. Thatd be devastating. 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